Re: [patch 2/5] mm: deprecate vmalloc_to_pfn

[Andrew Morton]

Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 06:22:40PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 07:06:30PM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > Deprecate vmalloc_to_pfn.
> > 
> > I don't think there's any point to even keep it.  There's a trivial replcement.
> 
> It is exported, is the only thing. I tend to stick my head in the sand
> with these matters, and try to go with whatever I think will help Andrew
> merge it.
> 
> If nobody cares, I'd just as soon remove it completely.

It's been in there for a long time.  Theoretically we should mark it
deprecated, kill it in six months or so.

But vmalloc_to_page() is EXPORT_SYMBOLed, so fixing up downstream breakage
will be so trivial it's hardly worth bothering.  So let's zap vmalloc_to_pfn()
in 2.6.18.
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